Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days.

Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.

Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.

To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.